Nice prominent advertisement for installing OpenJDK 6 in Ubuntu on the OpenJDK website. Where is the one for Fedora? Anyone have a contact at OpenJDK? Seems like we could give them the equivalent set of installation instructions for the page, “How to download and install prebuilt OpenJDK packages.” I’d really appreciate that being updated somehow, […]
Category Archives: Open Source
Caught this recently, our local public library has chosen an open source solution (Koha ZOOM) and provider because, “We are convinced that open-source products provide greater functionality and control over what we can do with an ILS system,” (Dan Landry, Director of IT for SCPL). From the press release I was pleased to read that […]
GSoC statistics snapshot
21-Apr-08Do the numbers yourself from “The Fedora Project & JBoss.org” page, but here is my quick dump from what I’ve seen so far: 68 proposals, 45 mentors 12 accepted projects (student slots) Approx 1 in 5 proposals rose to the top 25% of the accepted projects are about Transifex, which is a GSoC project from […]
Talking with developers
21-Apr-08The standard Fedora presentation is to show: what is Fedora? who is Fedora? why does Fedora matter? how do you join the open source movement? I’m going to give a variation of that at CommunityOne in a few weeks, and be prepared to answer questions on those topics plus others in the “Operating System Community […]
Fedora at Sun’s Community One event
18-Apr-08On Monday 5 May, I’ll be attending Sun’s CommunityOne, an open and no-cost event for developers. Aside from going for the general interest and relationship to $dayjob, I’ll be giving a talk on Fedora and sitting on an “Operating System Community Panel.” As a bonus, the Community One pass gives access to the pavilion and […]
Looking for a tech writing class to help
10-Apr-08Ready for some classic back scratchin’? (That’s where you scratch my back, and I scratch yours.) You are in charge of or part of a class in technical writing or documentation. We have an open project with tools, processes, and lots of great content to create and manage. In addition to using community-generated content to […]
With all the attention on documentation toolchains in Fedora Docs, I wanted to provide a quick scope on the differences between the toolchain we’ve been using over the years, in /cvs/docs, and the newcomer, publican. The goals are many: introduce a new toolchain to users of the old tools; show the many similarities and few, […]
Seek ye students
29-Mar-08In the middle of the Summer of Code proposals process and it’s been a mixed yet mostly good experience. We still have room for more proposals, so keep helping interested students and encourage them to get in a proposal for Fedora or JBoss.org. We’ll know at the beginning of next week if the student deadline […]
One week window to choose and propose. If you are looking to be a mentor, you need to sign in with a Google/Gmail account and request to be a mentor of “The Fedora Project & JBoss.org”: http://code.google.com/soc/2008/mentor_home.html Please do that immediately, thanks!
Fluendo, Bastien, et al — I’m sorry fwiw
16-Mar-08Since I can’t apologize for the Fedora Board, I’ll apologize and explain for myself. Despite feeling that we are doing the best we can for Fedora in this situation, I feel bad that we abused our relationship with Fluendo. We once again are in the midst of making the same mistake we made for Fedora […]